Previously
recorded as probably having been found in Istanbul. For the evidence for its
discovery in a well in Smyrna, by the Revd William Petty, see Harding, Robert
JD, 'The head of a certain Macedonian King' An old identity for the British
Museum's 'Arundel Homer' in The British Art Journal, Volume IX No. 2, Autumn
2008.

Acquired by the British Museum in 1760British Museum______________________________________
Frontispiece from The Iliad of HomerTranslated By Alexander PopePub. Berard Lintot1715.________________________________For the Joseph Wilton bust of Homer see my post - http://bathartandarchitecture.blogspot.co.uk/2015/05/bust-by-louis-francois-roubiliac-of.html_______________________________The Townley HomerBritish Museum.see - http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details/collection_image_gallery.aspx?assetId=613448001&objectId=460092&partId=1The Townley HomerEngraving by Bartolozzi after a drawing by John Brown.425 x 330 mm.British MuseumHomer. Engraved after a drawing by John Brown of the marble bust of Homer in the Townley Excavated in 1780.Collection, now in the British Museum.Engraving of the Townley Homer after John Brown.Marino Bovi218 x 140 mm. to Plate Mark.British Museum.

After an
unidentified marble sculpture (probably part of Rubens' antiquities
collection). A drawing by Rubens is in the Morgan Library, New York,
inv.no.III,161; a preparatory drawing by Vorsterman is in the Fondation
Custodia, Paris, inv.no.5949; see F. Stampfle, 'Netherlandish Drawings of the
Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries and Flemish Drawings of the Seventeenth and
Eighteenth Centuries in the Pierpont Morgan Library', New York-Princeton, 1991,
pp.156-157, cat.no.324.

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